A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Spanish Battleship Launched.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 8, 1913:
FERROL, May 7.— The battleship Alfonso XIII. was launched here to-day. The Infanta Isabel, aunt of the King, named the warship. The Alfonso XIII. was laid down in February, 1910. She is of 15,460 tons displacement and will carry a complement of 700 men.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Spanish Battleship Launched.

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